Six tons of cocaine seized on fishing boat in the Pacific

The fishing boat, called Danny Ivan, had sailed from the Colombian port of Buenaventura and was boarded 530 miles from shore in the Pacific Ocean, in international waters.

The cocaine, worth US$150 million, was found on Tuesday hidden in the Danny Ivan's engine room and in its refrigeration units, Pena said. Details on which U.S. Coast Guard unit participated in the operation and precisely where the suspected smugglers would be taken were not immediately available.